The Power of LEGO

[davecmu]

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Engineer designs and builds (with LEGO™ brand blocks) a working version of the Antikythera mechanism. So awesome.

Great animation of the device, too. Shot with stop-motion over 40 days.

 

[mretzloff]

That is amazing. I have always found Legos interesting.

 

[ImaWestie]

Great. Now my son will want the kit for this for Christmas

 

[raditzer]

legos are so cool! Though you'd need an engineering degree for that "toy" The music in the piece was spectacular!

 

[kg4ghn]

That's awesome!

 

[Sullybob]

Very cool.

 

[SRock]

That's pretty cool. Impressive that they were able to work out its action and duplicate it.

Stumbled on this one the other day. Not at all scientific but entertaining:

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[ImaRobot]

That's a really cool video, I've only heard about the machine briefly in news clips. I'll have to look up some journal articles on it to see how they lifted the design from the x-rays. The original artifact did not look to be in very good condition from the photos I've seen.

 

[raisindot]

Personally? I think the original Greek version is a million times more impressive than this.



Jeff in Boston

 

[SRock]

Personally? I think the original Greek version is a million times more impressive than this.



Jeff in Boston